August 1790
JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Anno 30o Georgii Tertii.
DIE Martis, 10o Augusti 1790.
DIE Martis, 10o Augusti 1790, Annoque Regni
Serenissimi Domini Nostri Georgii Tertii, Dei
Gratiâ, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Regis, Fidei Defensoris, &c. Tricesimo, in Superiori Domo
Parliamenti Magnæ Britanniæ apud Westmonaster.
convenere Domini quorum Nomina subscribuntur,
et præsentes fuerunt:
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Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
March. Stafford,
C.P.S.
Dux Leeds. |
The King's Most Excellent Majesty, having by His
Writ of Summons bearing Date at Westminster the
Twelfth Day of June last, appointed His Parliament to
open and begin this Day:
Parliament prorogued.
The Lord Chancellor declared in the House, "That
His Majesty had been pleased to cause a Writ to be
issued under the Great Seal for proroguing the Parliament."
And the same was read by the Clerk as follows:
GEORGE R.
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, and so forth: To Our well-beloved and
faithful the Prelates, Nobles, and Peers, of Our
Kingdom of Great Britain, and to Our beloved and
faithful the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and
Commissioners for Shires, and Burghs of Our said
Kingdom, called and chosen to Our Parliament, to be
begun and held at Our City of Westminster, on the
Tenth Day of August next ensuing, and to every
of You greeting: Whereas we for certain arduous
and urgent Affairs concerning Us, the State, and
Defence of Our Kingdom of Great Britain, and the
Church, did ordain the said Parliament to be held at
the Day and Place aforesaid, and did command you
by Our several Writs to be present at the City, and
Day aforesaid, to treat, consent, and conclude about
those Things, which in Our said Parliament then and
there should be proposed and treated of, nevertheless
for certain Causes and Considerations, Us at this
Time especially moving, We have thought fit that
Our said Parliament be prorogued unto Tuesday the
Twelfth Day of October next ensuing, so that you, nor
any of you should be held, or obliged to appear on
the said Tenth Day of August, at the aforesaid City:
We also Will that you and every of you be wholly discharged as to Us therefrom, commanding and by the
Tenor of these Presents strictly requiring you and
every of you, and all others whom this may concern, that you and every of you do Personally appear and be present on the said Twelfth Day of October, at Our said City of Westminster, to treat, do, act,
and conclude upon those Things, which in Our said
Parliament by the Common Council of Our said
Kingdom, (by God's Assistance,) shall happen to be
ordained.
Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Thirtieth
Day of July, in the Thirtieth Year of Our
Reign.
By the King Himself, signed with His own
Hand.
"Yorke."
Certificate of the Return of the Sixteen Peers for Scotland, delivered.
The Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery delivered this Day, a Certificate of the Names of the Sixteen Peers chosen, summoned and certified to sit and
vote in this House, for that Part of Great Britain called
Scotland, who attending at the Table with the original
Return, the same was compared with the said Certificate,
and found to agree therewith, and is as follows;
(videlicet)
May it please Your Lordships,
I do hereby certify, that by Virtue of His Majesty's
Royal Proclamation, dated the Eleventh Day of June
last, a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of
George Home, and Robert Sinclair, Esquires, Two of
the Principal Clerks of Session; attending the Election
aftermentioned, in Virtue of the Lord Clerk Register's Commission to them granted, hath been delivered into the Crown Office, in Chancery, whereby
it appears that the Earls of Eglintown, Moray, Kellie,
Lauderdail, Dumfries, Elgin, Balcarras, Bredalbane,
Glasgow, Viscount of Stormont, Lords Cathcart, Elphinston, and Torphichen, were duly elected to be
Thirteen of the Sixteen Peers, to sit and vote in the
House of Peers, in the ensuing Parliament of Great
Britain, and that the Votes for the Earls of Galloway,
Selkirk, Stair, and Hopetoun, and for Lords Somerville and Napier, were equal.
Given under my Hand this Twenty-ninth Day of
July, 1790.
John Yorke,
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery."